CALL FOR PAPERS
8th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (ISCLS 2026)
IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India
Deadline: 15 January 2026
8th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (8th ISCLS)
IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India
9-11 March, 2026
Convenors: Pavankumar Satuluri, IIT Roorkee and Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
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FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, etc.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Jan 15th, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: Feb 15th, 2026
Camera Ready Version Due: March 1st, 2026
The submissions should not exceed 20 pages, and should include the title, abstract, and names and affiliations of all authors. To prepare your submission, please use the LaTeX source files listed on the website, and follow the instructions provided there. The information related to the submission portal will be updated soon on the website.
The proceedings would be published as a part of ACL Anthology under
https://aclanthology.org/venues/iscls/
Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: with Extensions to Related Ancient
Indian Languages (Vedic, Pali, Prakrit)
Digital lexicons, thesauri and wordnets
Computational phonology and morphology
Syntactic analysis
Prose order normalisation
Parsing
Discourse analysis
Structural semantics
Machine translation
Automatic analysis of Sanskrit corpus
Processing of Sanskrit scientific, technical and philosophical texts
Information extraction
Named entity recognition
Shāstric Sanskrit Texts and Computation
Computer modeling and simulation of Paninian and other traditional grammars
Theories of Śābdabodha and Sanskrit computational processing
Sanskrit Digital Libraries Management
Tools for acquisition and maintenance of Sanskrit digital corpus
Library crawlers or search tools in Sanskrit corpus
Incorporation of grammatical information in Sanskrit corpus
Automated tools for evaluation of Sanskrit poetry, e.g., meter recognition/verification, alaṃkāra identification, śleṣa analysis
Software tools for phylogenetic studies, intertextuality management, establishment of critical editions, and other philological applications
OCR recognition of romanized Sanskrit as well as ancient Indian scripts
Digital cataloguing of manuscripts
Annotation and editing
Alignment of text with images (including manuscripts)
User interface design
Miscellaneous Computer Applications Relevant to Sanskrit
Software tools for teaching Sanskrit
Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis
Tools and applications for Sanskrit dissemination
Creative generation (e.g., Sanskrit poetry)
Program Committee (confirmed)
Amba Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad
Arjuna S R, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur
Hrishikesh Terdalkar, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad
Jivnesh Sandhan, Kyoto University
Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
Oliver Hellwig, University of Zürich
Pavankumar Satuluri, IIT Roorkee
Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
Sebastian Nehrdich, Tohoku University
Sriram K, IIIT Hyderabad
Tanuja P Ajotikar, The Sanskrit Library
Previous Editions:
INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, France (2007)
Brown University, Providence, USA (2008)
University of Hyderabad, India (2009)
JNU, Delhi, India (2010)
IIT Bombay, India (2013)
IIT Kharagpur, India (2019)
Auroville, Pondicherry (2024)
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